For PG-13 Eyes only….
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Chapter 15
11:30
"Let go of me!!" Scully yelped as he let go of her hand.
"Have it your way." Klines muttered. "You are wondering why I took you." He then said, stopping dead in his tracks.
"Yes I am." Scully said turning toward him, her hands on her hips. "Why did you take me?"
"I have been after you and Mulder for quite some time. " Klines admitted. "The truth is… is that with you out of the bureau and Mulder assigned a new partner, he was an easy target. When you were his partner, he was stronger. "
"And now he's not"
"Did you send someone named Orion to kill him?" Scully asked sharply.
"Orion let me see." Klines said, pretending to think. "Why I believe that I did."
"Bastard." Scully muttered.
"I know." Klines said. "It's a gift I tell you."
Noticing that she did not recognize where they were, she asked, "Where have you taken me, Klines."
"Somewhere where your ex-partner will have trouble finding. Now come, we have more walking to do."Scully sighed a deep sigh and continued walking with him, hoping that Mulder was all right.
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"So what do we do now?" Heather asked, ever so flirtatiously.
"Without a word, Mulder fumbled for his cell phone and went out side to call Skinner.
Skinner had told him to go check in a hotel to calm himself down. He had reminded him, that he was still injured and he needed to concentrate on his leg healing. "Scully said two more days on the kretches"
"Aaah." Mulder said. "But sir—"
"I know Mulder." Skinner had said. "But what is Scully going to do when she comes back and finds out that you hurt yourself worse?"
"She'd kick my ass."
"Exactly." Skinner said. "Lay low for two days. We are going to have every man possible searching for her.
Mulder only hoped that they would find her sooner.
When Mulder walked inside, he told Heather to call Jason at the hospital to tell him about what happened to Scully. He then called himself a cab, went to the nearest hotel, and reluctantly followed his boss's orders to a T. "This is for Scully." He said aloud as he began walking toward his room and unlock the door. "It always has been."
He layed on the bed then, knowing that he would not get any sleep.
12:30 pm
Meanwhile Heather had called Jason to tell him what had happened to Scully. She had made it a quick, abrupt call, for she wanted to know where Mulder was, thus leaving Jason unaware of what truly happened. After he had hung up the phone with Heather, he had called Assistant Director Skinner, in hope of some real answers.
"Tell me what happened to her, sir." Jason asked after he explained to Skinner that he had talked to Heather. Skinner, understanding the experience with talking to Heather, agreed to tell him anything that he wanted to know.
" She was abducted by this man Klines, the man that Agent Mulder and Kingman were investigating." He took her?" Jason exclaimed half question, half exclamation.
"Yes" Skinner said. " Agent Mulder and Dr. Scully think that this dates back to when they themselves were partners."
"So why not target Heather?"
"Because Heather is not as strong as Scully." Skinner spoke. " Listen Jason, we are doing everything in or power searching for her."
"Where is Mulder; I'd like to talk to him."
Skinner had explained that Mulder was ordered to stay off his feet, and was not trying to regain his strength, for he was still recovering from his latest injury. Skinner had also given him Mulder's cell phone number.
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Somewhere in Columbia
2 days later.
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" Come on now, don't be so feisty my pretty." Klines said as he watched her back away at the sight of his gift. "They are merely clothes. You have been wearing the ones you have on for over two days now."
"I don't want anything from you." Scully growled.
" Yes… I have gathered that." Klines said. "But you have refused almost everything I have offered. You have refused to shower and take these clothes, but you have yet to refuse the food I put in front of your mouth."
"Because that is the only good thing that you offer." Scully said.
"You have to trust me—"
"Trust you?" Scully exclaimed. " There is only one person that I trust—
"I know." Klines said. "But listen to what I have to say. I am not poisoning you, sacrificing you, doing anything to ham you. I know that is what you are thinking dearie. I just want you to be comfortable. Take the clothes and the shower, I merely just want you to be comfortable, that's all."
Realizing that she did indeed need a shower and a change of clothes, she reluctantly took the sundress that he held in his grasp. "Thanks" she muttered as she walked toward the outside shower stall, the only means of bathing in Kline's house.
"Oh dearie." Klines said. "I have to leave for a bit, I have some things to do."
"If you hurt-"
"I'm not going to dearie, I am not." He said then walking back into the house and orbing to where he wanted to go: Mulder's .
~End, part 15
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Part 16
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Wallaby Lodge
11:00PM
Mulder's Room, 12d
To his surprise, Mulder slept: A little, but not much. "Better than nothing." He thought to himself as he now swiveled his legs over to the side of the bed. He stood up then, favoring his left leg and stretching. Yesterday when he went to Skinner to ask if there was any news on the whereabouts of Scully, he found that he now could ditch the kretches—but he still had to be careful. Skinner had immediately sent him back to the motel, saying that there was no use for him and that he was still weak, even though he could walk without kretches now.
He knew Skinner was right. And god knows that he wanted to be fully healed when he met Klines face to face. He was pissed. Down right pissed. Here he was, somehow in Scully's life again and he put her in danger after only a few days of getting reacquainted. "It should be me" he said aloud to no one in particular."Why?" Klines asked.Mulder turned to see Klines standing there, looking somewhat like The Crocodile Hunter—minus the Australian accent of course. Kline's long blonde hair was pulled back in a ponytail, complete with tan shorts and T-shirt. He even had the white shoes and knee socks to boot.
"Son-of a-" Mulder said as he turned around to face him. "Where is Scully?"
"Answer the question" Klines said.
"What question?" Mulder growled.
"The 'It should be me' question." Klines said. "Let me guess. You blame yourself yet again for her getting hurt or disappearing, am I right?"
"You know it is." Mulder said, his tone angry. " Why are you here?"
"To take you somewhere." Klines said. "But we have to make more stops on the way first."
Before Mulder could reply to his comment Klines said, "You think I hurt her, killed her, or maybe raped her."
"If you laid a hand on her I'll---" Mulder growled, taking a firm grip on Klines arm.
"Kill me, I know." Klines said, showing no emotion in his face. "Now come on Mulder we got other things to do." Then taking hold of Mulder's shoulder they disappeared, leaving Mulder's hotel room behind.
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Scully had showered and dressed and was now sitting in a chair, tied up like a prisoner in the grassy area outside. "How did he do this?" Scully thought to herself as she tried to undo the knot that was holding her hands behind her back. She was gagged now too, and she hated it.
"Hello Dearie." Klines said as he appeared with Mulder, Heather, and Jason beside him.
"Scully!" Mulder exclaimed as he tried to move toward her—But Klines stopped him.
"Not so fast Mul-der." Klines said. " You move when I tell you."
Klines then walked in front of Scully, and undid the gag that was around her mouth.
"Why did you tie me up, you son of a bitch?" Scully hissed.
"I was afraid that you would run away and spoil my fun." Klines said.
"How did you do it?"
"I just thought it inside my mind dearie." Klines said as he untied the knots that held Scully's hands and feet together. "There."
"What the hell are we doing here?" Jason asked.
"Just a little fun." Klines said. "A little insightful fun. Let me explain: I know that you hate the way that Mulder looks and Dana."
"How—"
"I can read minds, remember."
A smirk was Jason's reply.
"Now." Klines started. "Since we are all here, this is what I want. We are all going to go on a little hike. After all, I am sure that most of you haven't been to Columbia and have seen the beautiful jungles that Columbia has. Now—I need you to take off what you don't need for this little adventure."
"Take off what we don't need?" Mulder asked, raising a brow.
"Yeah Mulder. " Klines said, looking at Mulder, then to Scully. "Take off the clothes you don't need."
"Really?" Jason intervened. "Well to survive in this jungle, we need all our clothes."
"Well I can just do this." Klines said as he snapped his fingers. Which each snap, clothes bagan to disappear off their bodies until they were all naked.
"What are you doing Klines." Mulder growled.
"Look down, Mulder. " He looked down and noticed that he was naked. He then turned to the right of him to see that Scully, Jason and Heather were naked too. "Fuck." Mulder growled.
Immediately, Scully folded her arms in front of her breasts. "God damn you Klines, what the hell is this for?"
"Fun, my dear." Klines said eyeing her body, his eyes lingering on her womanhood.
Mulder noticed this and stood in front of her. "You look at me." He growled.
With Mulder's back in front of her, she noticed that he had a few more scars than he used to. She wanted to give Heather little piece of her mind for not watching over him.
Scully noticed then, that Heather's eyes were on Mulder and Jason's eyes were on her.
"Well now this is interesting." Klines said, folding his arms against his chest. "Are things a little tense now?" Then, he mumbled a few words that were not understood. Like magic, Scully, Mulder, Jason and Heather were wearing leaves, like Adam and Eve used to wear long ago.
"Better now?"
"No..." Jason said sharply. "But an improvement."
"Come on now, we have an adventure to go on." Klines said in an excited tone.
Somehow Mulder, thinking with Scully in mind, didn't think that this adventure was going to be exciting, but only a constant hard on instead.
Part 17
Columbia Jungle
3:00pm
It had been hours since they had first began walking. Klines had been insistent on going on this adventure, so much that he threatened to kill Scully. So of course, as if they were being held on gunpoint, they started on their journey. They started east, which Klines said was where to begin. All four of them were still wearing leaves and they were beginning to itch.
"Listen, can we have some real clothes?" Heather whined as she scratched her shoulder.
"I suppose you could." Klines said. "If you all promise to behave." Raising his arm then and yelling "arwente!" they had on their normal clothes.
"May I ask what the point of the leaves was?" Heather asked, curiously.
"To teach you all a lesson. " Klines said, moving onward, as the head of the group. "See, you all think that you hold some significant power to the life that you have. —But you don't. I have that power. I am like God, sitting right beside him. I am his right hand man."
"Uh huh." Mulder said, unconvinced. "Then how come you are so evil?"
"I am not evil Mulder." Klines said, stopping in his tracks. "I am performing god's work."
Before any other comments could be said, a brief "shit" was heard from Scully, and fell into Mulder's arms.
"Scully you okay?" He said into her ear.
"Yeah." Scully said. "Just tripped."
"And what exactly have you been drinking, Scully?" Mulder teased.
Scully gave him a 'don't screw with me' look as she said, "I'm fine Mulder."
"Sure ya are." Mulder said, helping her stand up again. "Can you walk?"
"Sure Mulder." Scully said, not meeting his eyes. "I'm fine, I said that all ready.
Klines stepped back a bit, to see what exactly what was going on. "What's going on?" He demanded, giving Mulder an impatient look.
"Scully hurt her ankle." Mulder said without taking his eyes off her.
"I'm fine Mulder." Scully said.
"Uh huh." Mulder said unconvinced. "Then how come you are favoring your right leg?"
It was written all over her face then, slightly embarrassed that she let Mulder see her weak. She then sighed and said, "Yes Mulder. It hurts. It hurts like hell. Are you happy now?"
"Not that you are hurt…" Mulder said. "But I am happy that you told me."
"Awww." Klines said. "This is sweet."
"Shut up" Jason yelled.
"You are just jealous." Klines said as he turned behind him to look Jason in the eye. " I can read your thoughts."
"We need to get going," Heather said. "Before it gets too dark."
"She's right" Scully said, starting to get ready to walk.
"Oh no, you are not walking on that ankle. " Mulder said. "You and I both know that you can't walk on that."
"I know Mulder.. " Scully said.
"Then let me carry you." Mulder said.
Before another word was spoken, Mulder walked to Scully and picked her up in a cradle like position.
"Mulder-" She said
"Shh Scully." Mulder whispered in her ear. "We'll move faster this way."
Realizing that Mulder was right, Scully moved her self in his arms to get comfortable.
"Come on troops!" Klines yelled. "Let's move!"
Columbia Jungle
5:30 pm
While walking, Mulder tried to ignore just how good Scully felt in his arms. But of course—he failed. The bulk in his jeans would show that.
It had been hours since they had stopped to rest and the sun was beginning to set. Deciding to stop for the night, Klines set up camp, magically setting up three tents with the snap of his finger.
"How the hell did you do that?" Jason asked. "What the hell are we doing in the Columbian Jungle?"
"Why Jason, to answer the first question… I just thought it… and the tents appeared. To answer your second question… we are here because I want to and for a little adventure."
Not quite satisfied with his answer, Jason turned away from him, seeing Mulder and Scully in the distance, talking softly to each other. Mulder's arm was loosely around Scully's shoulder while her ankle was elevated and her head on his shoulder.
Jason grunted under his breath and walked toward Heather, who was sitting alone off in the distance.
"Hey" Jason said as he sat down next to her
"Hi." She said unenthusiastically, her head turned away from him.
"How you doin'?"
"Fine." Heather muttered.
" Well you don't seem fine." Jason said.
"Doesn't that bother you?" She said referring to Mulder and Scully sitting in the far distance.
"Course it does." Jason said, not turning his head to look at them.
"Well...." Heather started.
"Well what?" Jason asked. "Unfortunately there is nothing that I can do about it. They are friends and I can't choose who she's friends with."
"Sure you can." Heather said. "You can-"
"Sabotage them?" Jason finished for her. "Isn't that a bit juvenile?"
"Ooooh I just don't like her." Heather growled.
"You don't even know her." Jason said, defending Scully. "She is truly an amazing woman."
"Hmph." Heather grumbled.
Jason then stood up, not wanting to listen to Heather's whining any longer. He walked towards an other end of the campground where he sat alone.
~End, part 17~
Part 18
6:30pm
Dark was officially surrounding the jungle now. Mulder and Scully were still sitting close together, talking. Scully's ankle was still elevated while Jason was asleep and Heather was pouting. There had been no sign of Klines in the past hour.
"It's getting quiet." Scully said.
"Yeah…" Mulder said, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "How's your ankle?"
"Fine." Scully said as Mulder laughed.
"Really Scully?"
"Hurts still, but not as much as it did before." Scully said, knowing that he would harass her until he got a straight answer.
"Well that's good to hear." Mulder said, adjusting himself from underneath her, for she was leaning on him.
"So how have you been, Mulder?" Scully asked, tilting her head to meet his eyes.
"You mean before I put yourself in danger once again?"
"Mulder, I know what you are thinking and it is not your fault." Scully said. "This time around, you came to me."
"But I--"
"No don't start Mulder." She said putting a finger to his mouth, shushing him. "Nothing is your fault do you understand that? I don't blame you for what happened to me in the past, I blame them. They are the ones who did this to me, and caused you and I so much pain. You need to get over this Mulder."
" I try to Scully, its just that every time that you are in danger or hurt, I blame myself. The thought of 'if she never came to me in the first place, she would never have been hurt so badly.' rolls in my head every time this happens."
"Mulder, I never saw you there, hurting me, putting that damn chip in my neck, giving me cancer. Those men did that to me, not you. You would never hurt me Mulder."
"I never could, Scully." Mulder said, wrapping his arms around her. "I love you too much."
"You what me?" Scully asked, barely a whisper, for she was indeed shocked.
"Love you." Mulder said quietly enough so others could not hear. He chuckled then saying, "I was hoping you would say 'I love you too', but I guess I set my hopes a little high though."
"No Mulder, you don't. Scully said, her breath heavy. "Because I love you too."
" I must be dreaming." Mulder said, smiling. "You know that you have just made me a happy man?"
Scully laughed softly. "Have I now?"
"Yes," Mulder said, "Yes you have."
And with that, Mulder kissed Scully softly on the lips and rested for the night. For once, he slept the entire night.
End, part 18
Part 19
The sun had rose and morning was about to announce its presence. Mulder could feel the sun warming on his face as Scully moved in his arms. He opened his eyes then, groaning lightly at the thought of what the day would bring. He saw Scully and could do nothing but smile. He always thought that she looked beautiful when she slept, but things were different now. She was sleeping in his arms and they had professed their love to eachother. All he wanted to do now… was to take her home and show her just how much he loved her.
He could see Scully waking up, and he pulled her closer to him as he whispered, "I love you." In her ear.
She smiled then stretching and rubbing her eyes as she said softly with a smile, "I love you too. "
"How did you sleep?" Mulder asked, gently rubbing her upper arms.
"Fine." Scully said. " Better than I have in a couple of days."
Mulder smiled, "And your ankle?"
"Feels better right now, but I haven't put weight on it yet."
"Do you know how badly, I want to take you home?" Mulder asked, softly.
" I know Mulder; I feel it too."
In the far distance, they heard Klines yelling, "Rise and shine troops! Time to get on the road!"
"I want to shoot him." Mulder growled.
"Not if I do it first. " Scully said as Mulder helped her up.
"Now if your ankle hurts," Mulder said taking her hand. "You better tell me. "
"Most definitely." Scully said, as she leaned on Mulder just in case she would fall.
"Promise?" Mulder asked, making the 'puppy dog' face for effect.
"Promise."
"What's going on here?" Klines demanded, walking towards them.
"Just helping Scully up." Mulder said, trying not to think about her body, molded to his.
When Klines looked at Scully, she nodded, agreeing to what Mulder was saying. Agreeing that was all right, Klines walked off to check on Jason and Heather.
Mulder and Scully watched Klines stomp off in the direction that Heather and Jason were in. Mulder then took hold of Scully's arm and pulled her back to where their campsite was set.
"Listen," Mulder whispered as he lifted up his ankle to show his ankle gun. "I still have this."
"You want to kill him?" Scully asked, raising a brow.
"More than anything. "
"But that's-"
"He's freaking crazy Scully."
"I know." Scully said. "Have you had that on your ankle all along? Even when .. we were…"
"I guess his magic took the gun off me along with my clothes."
Scully made an, "oh " face as she noticed Klines walking towards them. "Put your put your pant leg down." She whispered at him before Klines could see what they were doing.
"Anything wrong here?" Klines asked, slightly suspicious of what they were up to. He honestly had no idea, for they were not thinking any impure thoughts.
"My leg is cramping," Scully said, immediately rubbing her left leg.
"Oh…" Klines said. "Well, hurry up; we got to get moving." There is a storm coming in." With a snap of his finger, the camping equipment was gone. "We leave in 5 minutes."
The storm seemed to move in faster than expected. By the time they were ready to move along on their journey, it was pouring rain and within minutes they were soaked. It was raining so hard that it was difficult to see, so they treaded the ground carefully, trying not to slip on something unexpected. Mulder was walking in between Heather and Scully, secretly checking on Scully to see how she was doing.
"I am fine Mulder." She whispered as she heard Klines yell something.
"Arute!" he yelled.
"What are you yelling about?" Heather asked impatiently as they continued to walk.
"Trying to stop the rain, my dear."
"Well, its not working is it?" She then asked impatiently.
"No.." Klines said, tilting his head up to the sky and yelling "Arute!" once again. It was still raining.
"I think that your powers are useless. " Jason said impatiently.
Klines stopped in his tracks and said, "How dare you!"
"What?" Jason said. "I am just stating a fact."
"I do have powers and they do work!" Klines yelled. "I am just… distracted that's all. "
Then Klines moved forward, not realizing that he stepped a little close to the edge of a cliff, where a river flows not far below. Klines faulted his footing, thus falling to his death.
End, part 19
Part 20
Mulder, Scully, Jason and Heather stood there, peeking over the edge of the cliff.
"He's dead." Mulder yelled over the noise of the rain. "Let's find some shelter."
Being that they were all soaked to the bone… every one had no complaints of finding some shelter.
"Spread out or stay together?" Jason asked.
"Stay together." Mulder said as he moved away from the edge.
"The weather makes it worse." Scully said. Mulder nodded in response.
The four of them began searching for some kind of shelter, in hopes of getting out of the rain and figuring out exactly where they were. Mulder took Scully's hand as they searched, wanting some kind of contact with her. Fortunately, within at least fifteen to twenty minutes of searching, Scully noticed a deserted cave not to far off.
"Come on, let's go." Scully said as she spoke to the others. "I'm dying to get out of the rain."
Once inside Jason and Mulder were working on starting a fire the Boy Scout way while Scully and Heather searched the cave for unexpected visitors.
"Scully we could try that bullet trick that you pulled a few years ago." Mulder said, knowing that he was not having any luck with the fire.
"That didn't work Mulder." Scully yelled back.
"What bullet trick?" Jason asked, all too curious.
"Long story." Mulder said as he kept driving the wooden stick into the ground. "Keep doin' what you're doin'. "
Jason mumbled something in response that Mulder couldn't hear.
"I'm desperate Scully." Mulder said a few minutes later. "The wood may be wet, but there isn't rain pounding on it now. "
"All right check your clip." Scully said walking toward him, with Heather not following to far behind.
Mulder checked his clip and said, "I have enough." Then handing his clip to her he said, "Have at it G-Woman."
"Ex-G-woman." Jason corrected.
"Pardon me, " Mulder said with mock apology in his voice.
"Behave you two." Scully said as she sat down and began to pull the bullet apart.
While Scully worked at the bullet, both Mulder and Jason looked at her with interest. Mulder, amazed at her, while Jason was trying to figure out just how she knew this stuff. Ever since that Mulder had come back into her life he has seen a whole new side of Dana Scully that he had never seen before.
"And…. " Scully said as she poured the bullet shavings onto the wood, then, saw that a fire had started. "Success!"
"Wow Scully, I'm impressed." Mulder said.
"I just got lucky this time, that's all. " Scully said as she backed away from the heat.
"Now…" Jason said. "We need to figure out where to find food."
"Problem solved." Mulder said. "I saw some berries not to far off."
"And there's that river." Scully added.
"Right." Jason said, jealousy forming as a knot in his throat. "Well, I say that we rest a little while we wait for the rain to stop."
"Good idea." Mulder said as he grabbed Scully's arm and brought her to him. She smiled then as he put his arm around her and got comfortable, making his shoulder a pillow.
Both Mulder and Scully fell asleep not soon after that. Heather cried softly, while Jason glared at Mulder, wishing that he hadn't jumped back into Scully's life and screwed up everything that he desired.
End, part 20
A/N: I appreciate the reviews that I am getting! You guys rock! Please excuse the format at the moment (i.e. the big paragraphs) I am going to try to fix that this weekend. Cut me some slack I am a poor college student!